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What Does Aung San Suu Kyi’s Historic Election Victory Mean For Burma?

What Does Aung San Suu Kyi’s Historic Election Victory Mean For Burma?

Historic barely begins to describe the events taking place in Burma. Less than two years on from a sham general election designed to entrench the rule of the military and its proxies, unprecedentedly free polling in ...

Fighting Breaks Out in Shan State

Fighting Breaks Out in Shan State

Clashes have erupted in eastern Burma only weeks after a ceasefire was signed between the government and opposition Shan State Army (SSA). The fighting broke out earlier this week after Shan troops encountered three ...

Burma must end war in Kachin State

Burma must end war in Kachin State

President Thein Sein’s government is currently increasing troops for the offensive against the KIA in Kachin State and northern Shan State ...

Civil War Resumes in Burma- Kachin Independence Organization Declares Defensive

Civil War Resumes in Burma- Kachin Independence Organization Declares Defensive

Burma’s main ethnic armed group, the Kachin Independence Organization, today ordered its troops in Kachin State and Northern Shan State to stage defensive war against Burma's Army, warning that the war would b ...